1906: A Wapato invitation
An addition to the post-frontier “Chinook invitations” file:
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Buckskin invitation
The Improved Order of Red Men strike again.
Potlatch Club ball invitation
The Daily Morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) Tuesday, March 27, 1888, column 3. I invite your interpretations of this text! Most of it’s quite clear. Some is new to me. — Dave Potlatch Club Ball.… Continue reading
1900: IORM invite in Jargon
You won’t get much Chinook reading practice here, but…
1921: Alaskan “Eyak” Jargon is a mix of pidgins!
Well after the frontier period, a Chinook Jargon invitation in Alaska is quite a different animal from “the classic Chinook”.
1786: Alexander Walker on the PNW coast (part 2 of 2)
Here’s part 2 of 2 in our examination of a really neat historical document of early contact…
1788: Meares in the Nootka zone, and the limitations of proto-Nootka Jargon
A hat tip to Dr. Peter Bakker for nudging me to more fully explore British maritime fur-trader John Meares’ journals…
1912: A postcard in Chinuk Wawa (from a new archive)
Rein “Snass” Stamm, have you seen this?
1911 letter: Mrs. Kenny Was True Pioneer
A not-so-tiptop typesetter gives us mildly muddled, but still interesting, Chinook Jargon and English from post-frontier southwest Oregon.
Red Men Greet Their Big Chiefs
The Red Men were a Settler fraternal organization that we’ve seen was quite attached to the “Jargon”…